Lineage

English

Noun

Lineage (plural Lineages)

1. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
2. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
   • 1927, William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical

     Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

Related terms

• line
• lineal
• linear

Adjectives for Lineage

ancient; imperial; injured; honorable.

Thesaurus

Indian file, affiliation, aftermath, ancestry, animal kingdom, apparentation, array, articulation, bank, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, brood, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, children, clan, class, coming after, common ancestry, concatenation, conclusion, connection, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, continuation, continuity, continuum, course, cycle, deme, derivation, descendant, descendants, descent, direct line, distaff side, drone, dynasty, effect, endless belt, endless round, extension, extraction, family, family tree, female line, file, filiation, folk, following, forebears, forefathers, fruit, gamut, genealogy, gens, gradation, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, heir, heirs, hostages to fortune, house, hum, inheritors, issue, kids, kind, kindred, line, line of descent, little ones, logical sequence, male line, matriclan, monotone, nation, new generation, nexus, offspring, order, order of succession, origin, parentage, patriclan, pedigree, pendulum, people, periodicity, phratry, phyle, phylum, plant kingdom, plenum, posteriority, posterity, postposition, powder train, procession, progeny, progression, prolongation, queue, race, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rising generation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, seed, sept, sequel, sequence, series, side, single file, sons, spear side, species, spectrum, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, string, subjunction, succession, successiveness, successor, suffixation, swath, sword side, thread, tier, totem, train, treasures, tribe, windrow, younglings, youngsters

Alternative forms

• linage

Etymology

From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); see line.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/, SAMPA: /"lIn.i.IdZ/

Translations

descent

Bulgarian: произход (bg) m. Catalan: llinatge (ca) m. Dutch: geslacht (nl), nakomelingschap (nl) n., afkomst (nl) c., afstamming (nl) f. Finnish: sukujuuret pl., esivanhemmat French: descendance (fr) f., lignée (fr) f., lignage (fr) f. Greek: γενεαλογία (el) f. Irish: líne (ga) f., ginealach (ga) m.

Italian: discendenza (it) f., lignaggio (it) m., stirpe (it) f. Portuguese: linhagem f., descendência f. Russian: происхождение (ru) (proisxožd'énije) n., родословная (ru) (rodoslóvnaja) f. Scottish Gaelic: sìol m., sinnsearachd f., sliochd m. Spanish: linaje (es) m. Swahili: kizazi (sw)

number of lines

Dutch: lijnental (nl) n. Italian: righe (it) f. pl.

Swahili: kizazi (sw)

See also

• genealogy

References

• Lineage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Lineage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911